Christmas lovers, rejoice. As the temperatures creep decrease and decrease and purchasing begins to really feel like a reenactment of The Hunger Games, the festive season in Newcastle rolls into full swing.
This yr, there are a great deal of Christmassy occasions and issues to do in Newcastle. From festive actions within the Toon to particular occasions, Christmas pop-up bars to pantos; you received’t be wanting locations to go in Newcastle this Christmas.
Here’s my information to what’s on in Newcastle for youths and adults this Christmas 2022. Just name me Santa, ‘cos I at all times provide you with what you need…
17 Festive Things To Do In Newcastle
1. Warm Up After Christmas Shopping At Lazy Bear
Located simply outdoors Central Station, Lazy Bear is the proper hideaway while you’re sick of trawling the retailers for presents.
With fireplace pits to huddle round wrapped in blankets and a festive drinks menu that features a bespoke ‘Lazy Bear Spiced Gin’ made in collaboration with Poetic License, that is the brand new winter tipi to go to in Newcastle this Christmas.
You can decide up a espresso from the hut from 8am or pop in later for a pie and a pint. There will even be a Santa’s grotto for youths.
The festive menu launches in December alongside a calendar of Christmassy occasions happening every Saturday.
Entry: Free
Open: Daily from 12pm – Midnight, closes at 11pm on Sundays
2. Take A Stroll Through An Enchanted Park
This Winter, Gateshead’s Saltwell Park will as soon as once more be reworked right into a magical and legendary wonderland. Wrap up heat and go for a stroll.
Tickets are bought out however I hear there’s restricted availability on the door on the on-site Welcome Marquee at Saltwell Park’s Joicey Road Carpark Entrance. Time slots are at half-hour intervals from 5pm – 8.30pm.
Adult tickets £5.00 for ages 16 and over, children go free when accompanied by an grownup.
Open: till twelfth December 2022
3. Dine In An Igloo
Could this be the very best factor to do in Newcastle this December? In the run as much as Christmas, you may guide a non-public festive eating pod within the Urban Garden on the Quayside for your self and as much as 9 pals.
This yr, the menu has been created in partnership with the workforce at Fusion from Ramside Hall to deliver a singular Asian – impressed menu to the pods, and you may get pleasure from views of the river as you eat.
Bookings can be found for six, 8 & 10 folks at £45 per individual. 100 deposit required.
Various dates from Thursday seventeenth November 2022
4. Watch It’s A Wonderful Life at Tyneside Cinema
Is there something that will get you within the festive spirit greater than watching a Christmas movie with the household?
The festive run of this traditional movie has change into a practice on the Tyneside Cinema, however this yr they’re additionally exhibiting Polar Express, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Elf, Home Alone and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
You could make it additional particular by reserving afternoon tea on the Tyneside Coffee Rooms beforehand. I like the sound of The Holiday Popcorn & Prosecco occasion they’re operating too!
Tickets: Afternoon Tea with fizz is priced at £32.50 / £37.50pp (with fizz)
Screenings of It’s A Wonderful Life run 2nd – twenty fourth December
5. Gaze on the most well-known window show within the metropolis
The grand unveiling of Fenwick’s Christmas window show indicators the start of the festive season in Newcastle annually, and window buyers of all ages adore it.
It’s simply as magical as at all times this yr. The theme is Clarice Bean: Think Like an Elf, which magically depicts the much-loved character Clarice Bean attempting ‘exception-ordinarily’ laborious to avoid wasting her household’s Christmas and cease the Christmas spirit floating away.
Sun 6 Nov 2022 05:00 pm – Tue 3 Jan 2023 08:00 pm
Free
6. Don Your Feather Boa For Boulevard’s Christmas Spectacular
Boulevard is a Newcastle establishment, however do you know that their Christmas calendar has greater than 50 occasions so that you can select from?
There are extra sequins, glitter and hilarity at Danni Dee and her Broadway dancers’ present within the run as much as Christmas. What higher method to prepare for the massive man than with a cabaret?
Standing tickets £10.00, seating begins at £25.00
fifth November – 1st January
7. Browse the Newcastle Christmas Markets
It comes yearly however it’s nonetheless one you shouldn’t miss in 2022. With a mixture of worldwide and native merchants, the market, which spans Grey Street, Grainger Street and Old Eldon Square, will even have a bar for Christmas 2022.
Food-wise, you may anticipate all the same old conventional Christmas fare and a few international favourites.
Entry: Free
Open: Saturday 19 November till Friday 23 December 2022
8. Go Ice Skating
The Life Science Center has an open air ice skating rink open in Times Square all through the festive season.
There’s additionally a ‘festive fiver‘ promotion running all season, where you can enjoy a live show full of magical light, experience the Winter skies in the center’s planetarium andmake a glow-in-the-dark Christmas card.
Prices and dates for ice skating on the Life Science Center
twelfth November – fifteenth January
Skate Family of 4 (Max. 2 adults) £40.00
Skate Adult (aged 18 and over) £13.50
Skate Carer (Please deliver proof) £0.00
Skate Child (aged 10-17) £12.00
Skate Child (aged 9 and below) £10.00
9. Take The Kids To The Panto
This yr’s Theatre Royal Christmas pantomime is Cinderella. Delight the little ones with the timeless story of the glass slipper and the lady who simply needed to remain out on the Toon.
Cinderalla is exhibiting from Tue 29 Nov 2022 – Sun 15 Jan 2023.
Alternatively, Tyne Theatre & Opera House are doing Beauty and the Beast (ninth Dec 2022 to eighth Jan 2023) and NATIVITY! The Musical (14th Nov 2023 to 18th Nov 2023).
Sundays 12pm, 2pm & 4pm
10. Eat breakfast with Mrs Claus at Seven Stories
Seven Stories, the National Center for Children’s Books, is providing an entire host of occasions for youths in Newcastle for Christmas.
Give little ones the prospect to eat breakfast with Santa’s Mrs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings all through December 2022. Alternatively, they’ll meet the Grinch on Friday twenty third December (morning or afternoon timeslots obtainable).
After college, go alongside to a storytelling session with Santa’s elves that includes among the finest youngsters’s books.
Tickets: Breakfast with Mrs Claus prices £12.50 for a kid
11. Join Santa At Fenwick
Newcastle’s Fenwick retailer’s fifth flooring cinema will likely be screening Christmas flicks all through the festive season.
Fenwick’s cinema tickets embody a complimentary mulled wine, or a spiced apple juice for adults, whereas little ones can sip scorching chocolate or juice.
You may even improve to the Roof Thirty Nine Pre-Cinema Experience, priced at £35. Arrive one hour earlier than the screening and luxuriate in a festive feast overlooking the Newcastle skyline because the workforce deal with you to a merry Cocktail, nibbles and a major course consisting of both a Festive Burger or a Vegan Festive Burger.
I’ve eaten at Roof Thirty Nine earlier than and the meals was unbelievable, so that is certain to please!
Kids will love Afternoon Tea with Santa, Santa’s Supper Club or Santa’s Breakfast Club, every priced at £27.50 per individual.
Alternatively, there are Christmas story writing workshops and Story time classes with Santa’s elves.
Cinema tickets: £17.50 (adults and kids).
Santa golf equipment obtainable from ninth November – twenty third December
Christmas cinema obtainable tenth November – twenty third December
Christmas Story Writing Workshop obtainable seventeenth November – 17 December
Afternoon tea with Santa obtainable thirteenth November – 18 December
Storytime with the elves obtainable twelfth November – twenty fourth December
Santa on the Roof at Fenwick is bought out
Please test costs and availability on the web site
12. Get festive at Sage Gateshead
Over the water within the iconic Sage Gateshead, there’s hundreds deliberate for Christmas 2022.
You can sit up for household favourites like The Snowman and Home Alone in live performance, a sing-along with Gareth Malone,
There’s additionally a Christmas Cabaret collection with Ginger Johnson, Jaii Andrew, Carmen & Lady Annabella
1st – thirty first December
13. Go full Geordie at Greggs’ Festive Bake Brunch
I imply, has there ever been an occasion so MADE for Newcastle? The Greggs Festive Bake Brunch will likely be coming to Dean Street for loyal followers of each Northerner’s favorite bakery.
Diners can get pleasure from Greggs-inspired cocktails together with Greggspresso martinis and loads of festive bakes throughout a 75 minute brunch.
The occasion reserving hyperlink is ready to go reside on Greggs’ social media channels at 12pm on Friday, November 4, and will likely be obtainable to guide by DesignMyNight.
There will likely be three sittings for brunch on Saturday, November 26 2022.
14. Join the revelry at The Purple Peacock
The Purple Peacock at all times guarantees to be a terrific night time out, and this Christmas they’re bringing their Jingle Jangle Christmas Spectacular to the Toon. George Michael followers can even guide the tribute present.
If you’re on the lookout for a Christmas present for the children in Newcastle, they’re additionally operating a family-friendly Santa and the Elves present, or Grinch & The Elf on Sundays.
15. See the Quayside lit up
With 6 websites and over 25 lasers, this yr’s Laser Light City is Newcastle’s largest but.
This occasion is an interactive expertise the place you need to use your cellphone to manage the place, color and magnificence of tremendous brilliant laser beams that may be seen for miles.
The lights will emanate from every of the six websites, which embody the Tyne Bridge, Baltic, Sage Gateshead and Malmaison.
30 December : 17:00 – 23:00
31 December : 17:00 – 01:00
1 January : 17:00 – 22:00
16. Visit the Christmas Clock
Join Eldon Square’s countdown to Christmas with a go to to the gorgeous Christmas clock crowing the Northumberland Street entrance.
Inside, you’ll find ‘Jingle and Bell’ the Express prepare located at St Andrew’s Way or go and see this yr’s spectacular Christmas tree, which is situated outdoors Clarks and Boots.
17. Wonder at Winter Wonderland
This yr’s Winter Wonderland at Newcastle Racecourse contains a fairground, zip wire, ice skating, toboggan slide, bungee.
It’s not all motion although – there are many meals stalls, and a German beer bar for anybody who prefers a slower tempo.
There are a lot of Christmas-themed occasions happening together with aOnce Upon a Princess present at 3 pm each Saturday in December, a Fairy Godmother Christmas Singalong at 6 pm, a Superhero Party at 3 pm each Sunday in December, and Meet the reindeer from 4 pm each Thursday.
Of course, there’s additionally a Festive Grotto.
seventeenth November – twenty fourth December, 4 pm to 9 pm on weekdays and 12 pm to 9 pm on weekends. Extended hours from 12 pm to 9 pm all week throughout the Christmas college holidays.
Adults and kids over 12 tickets are £9.50, youngsters aged between three and 11 value £7.50. A household ticket, for 2 adults and two youngsters, prices £29.
Check out my full information to issues to do in Newcastle should you’re on the lookout for inspiration that’ll preserve you busy all yr spherical.
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